Stayed up muuuuuuuch too late with Eva chatting while she made herself lunch notes

[conuly]

We also watched Galavant.

Consequently, I'm still not really awake.

Hey, daylight savings poll!

Poll #23570 Daylight savings

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What time do you REALLY switch your clock?

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Two AM
1 (0.9%)

Before I go to bed
25 (23.1%)

After I wake up
52 (48.1%)

Not a single clock in my life needs to be manually changed
11 (10.2%)

I do not have any clocks in my life
0 (0.0%)

I don't switch my clock, I just spend half the year out of sync
5 (4.6%)

Other
14 (13.0%)

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Although we have another three weeks before we do so!

[tozka]

The only clock we really have to change is the oven timer, everything else is electronic and switches automatically. Except for the coffee maker, which never gets updated!

[dine]

the clocks that really matter (phone, computer) switch themselves, my car is out of sync for six months, and the stove/microwave just blink at me, cause I never reset them after power outages

[alexseanchai]

When it occurs to me it is or is about to be wrong. This year that was "five minutes ago" 'cause my thought process was "it's after noon, I should lunch" -> "the oven and microwave say it's before noon??"

mind you last night in Discord two East Coasters were going "it's two am, should I sleep" at a minute or two till the hour and then one of them went "holy shit it's THREE? WHY"

[cellio]

"When it matters" is accurate for me. There's no point in having the microwave have a time setting; it can just be null. The car is out of sync until its drift gets too annoying -- an hour off is fine, but an hour (or not) *and several minutes* isn't -- so when the drift gets annoying I reset. I reset my watch (yes I wear a watch) in the morning. I reset the oven clock after the first time it alarms a guest. I reset the alarm clock sometime before Monday morning.

[sabotabby]

A combination of the above. The digital ones get switched throughout the day, but I have one manual one that is perpetually out of sync.

[julian]

The ones that need changing aren't the ones related to alarms/night time stuff, so I don't bother changing the manual ones before I go to bed. Or, sometimes, for a few days.

[redbird]

I changed the clocks this morning (bedside table, stove, and microwave) and temporarily altered the every-morning reminder to take my meds to a later clock time, since that's on the cell phone. I was glad to have done so, because I woke a little after 8 am EST, meaning a 9 am alarm would have woken me today,

[jtthomas]

My biomother switches all but her car clock the evening before. Despite me showing her how to change the car clock about ten times, she just doesn't change it, so it's out of sync.

[lilly_c]

We still have about three weeks before our clocks change. I usually get a text from mum to remind me to change the manual clocks and check their batteries.

[delphi]

My main/alarm clock gets changed the morning after I wake up, but the microwave and oven clocks usually linger for a few days.

[merridia]

Whenever I notice they're wrong and am not doing anything else, usually within a few weeks/the first month? All the important ones switch automagically, so.

[conuly]

Presumably that's after you've woken up.

[archersangel]

it varies; if i remember to do it before i go to sleep, i'll do it then. if not, i do it the next day.

[larryhammer]

I don't, because I live in Arizona where we want the sun to go down as quickly as possible in summer -- just say No to saving daylight.

[fred_mouse]

I am also fortunate to be in a no (morning) daylight losing state. We were forced to suffer through three years of a 'trial', and then at referendum strongly voted against (this is the second time in my life that I remember this happening; the no vote was higher at the second).

[greghousesgf]

There are a couple I set before I go to bed, a couple that set themselves and I adjust my watch when I get up in the morning.

[mtbc]

I was surprised that I don't have clocks I care about that don't change automatically, fortunately the microwave on our kitchen counter doesn't have a clock on it. For the household I've generally bought the clocks that listen for the radio signal except in moving between the US and UK I need to change those for the different radio signal!

[maju]

The one beside my bed gets changed before I go to sleep. All other manual ones get changed first thing in the morning. I still have to learn how to change the time in our new car though, so that hasn't been done yet.

[maellenkleth]

We work in one of those little pockets of the world, in which there is no twice-yearly change of time. Standard Time does the job just fine.

[archangelbeth]

The non-manual-clocks turn over when they turn. The bedside one whenever it gets noticed (usually when we wake up, sometimes not), ditto the stove and microwave, and the car clock when I notice it and tell my co-pilot to fix it...

So, er, kind of "after I wake up" but also on a really wide scale of "when we notice it."

[pauamma]

Whenever I remember to.

[marahmarie]

"After I wake up"'s more traditional, but this year I changed two of three clocks before going to bed - one downstairs and one in the bathroom. I woke up to see I'd slept until my normal time, at least according to the bedroom clock. Taking that literally, guess who went downstairs and asked the other person why they'd set all the other clocks in the house *2* hours ahead?

Yes, my just-woke-up brain's essentially useless

[thewayne]

Galavant is so much fun! ESPECIALLY Weird Al!

It's kind of funny - I didn't switch clocks at all last weekend! I drove from Cloudcroft to Phoenix, so all of my gear switched over. I'm here when it switched, so I'm done. When I go home next week, then when I get in my car I'll advance the car clock an hour and it'll be good when I cross the state line, which is about 20 minutes west of Lordsburg.

[bibliofile]

I'm thinking that check boxes would have given a different set of responses than radio buttons.

Me, I've been catsitting, so I changed the clocks there -- while my housemate switched the ones at home.

Interesting how so many cars' clocks languish. I have known people who will figure out someone else's car clock, so the clock gets reset eventually just not by the owner. Friends can be helpful!

[dorchadas]

I voted "after I wake up," which is mostly true, though there's always one or two for which "I don't switch my clock, I just spend half the year out of sync" applies.